Clarity & confidence where technology, strategy & investment meet.

For Investors, Business and Technology Leaders - we make complex technology & AI clear.

Clarity & confidence  where technology, strategy & investment meet.
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  • Mable
  • Fujitsu
  • Hancock & Gore
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  • Cuscal

Trusted for our technical depth and commercial acumen, we partner with investors, executives, and boards, to navigate complexity, surface critical risks, and unlock technology-driven opportunities.

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CTO Labs makes complex technology clear.

Investors

CTO Labs delivers technology due diligence that helps investors cut through technical complexity across the full deal lifecycle, through diligence, transformation, and AI enablement. Leveraging our proprietary methodology and benchmarking dataset, we expose and mitigate material risks while highlighting value creation opportunities with clear feasibility and cost implications.

Our analysis shows how a target’s technology, product, and security posture fit within the broader deal landscape and portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with the investment thesis and long-term value creation.

How we support your investment decisions

Validate the investment thesis
Test how technology, product, and security support the deal rationale, giving investors confidence that the target aligns with their portfolio strategy and value objectives.
Protect against downside risk
Protect investment value by surfacing risks early in diligence, clarifying their impact on valuation and execution, and ensuring they are mitigated before they become risks on exit.
Surface value creation levers
Highlight opportunities to modernise, scale, and optimise technology post-close, enabling investors to plan for growth and maximise returns across the portfolio.

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Diligence capabilities tailored to your thesis

Technology Due Diligence
Thesis driven always with technology expertise aligned to your deal dynamics. From acquisition to exit, we provide investors with clarity across all the technology aspects of your assets.
AI Due Diligence
We test AI initiatives against the investment thesis, confirming they move past experimentation into well-governed adoption delivering credible growth potential while managing risk.
Exit Preparation & Readiness
We prepare businesses for buyer diligence by surfacing the risks buyers will see, addressing material gaps, tightening artefacts, and coaching teams to engage with buyers.
Cybersecurity Due Diligence
We assess cyber maturity, quantify operational and brand risks, ensuring resilience and protecting asset value.
IT Due Diligence
We evaluate how IT underpins your investment thesis and quantifying OpEx and CapEx uplift required to sustain growth and future value.
Vendor Due Diligence
We deliver a clear, evidence-based report that navigates the technology landscape, manages risk disclosure, and streamlines diligence to simplify the sale process for multiple buyers.

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Why CTO Labs?

Proven transaction experience

Expertise at the intersection of business and technology

Data-backed diligence insights

Who do we work with?

We admire the company we keep. Read through some of our recent transactions.

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Some of our recent experience

Client NameAsset NameIndustryGeographyOfferingDate
Adamantem Capital

Mason Stevens

Financial ServicesAustraliaTechnology Due Diligence2025
Ellerston Capital

Fresh Clinics

Consumer ServicesTechnology Due Diligence2024
Five V Capital

Critical Arc

Information TechnologyAustralia, UK, USTechnology Due Diligence2024
General Atlantic

Kumu

Media & EntertainmentAustralia, Philippinestechnology Due Diligence2021
Future Now Capital

Finder

Financial ServicesAustraliaTechnology Due Diligence2021
Mr Yum & me&u

Mr Yum ﹠ me﹠u

HospitalityAustraliaTechnology Due Diligence2023

Insights from the field

Technology Due Diligence for merger success: Informing the Mr Yum & me&u integration.

In the early stages of merger discussions between two of Australia’s most innovative food ordering platforms, leadership teams (and investors) needed to move beyond assumptions and gain a full-spectrum understanding of how the businesses might fit together, across technology, operations, culture, customer value proposition, and governance.

CTO Labs delivered an independent, evidence-based report on how innovation could be scaled, customer value strengthened, and robust support and governance structures put in place for a successful merger and realisation of overseas expansion plans.


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Need a Technology Due Diligence checklist? Start here.

Building solid investment commercials relies on a technically confident understanding of potential value, beyond surface metrics. CTO Labs John Broadhead shares four questions to start uncovering how well a tech asset lines up with your market ambitions. Read on to refine your Technology Due Diligence checklist.


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Private Capital, Tech & AI: The Rise of the Commercial CTO

Access outtakes from our recent event, "The Rise of the Commercial CTO: Mastering Commercial Acumen in the Era of Private Capital and AI", co-hosted with our friends Allura Partners.


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FAQs

Common questions regarding technology driven assessments.

  • Macquarie
  • Alinta
  • Five V Capital logo
  • me&u logo
  • Bain & Co
  • Domain
  • Tannara logo
  • mr yum logo
  • WhiteOak
  • Pemba Capital Partners logo
  • General Atlantic
  • A2B logo
  • Advent Partners Logo
  • Morrison logo
  • Pacific Equity Partners logo
  • Alceon Logo
  • QIC logo
  • Adamantem Logo
  • Oakton
  • Pemba Logo
  • Oaktree
  • Kams
  • Ellerston
  • KKR Logo
  • Future Now
  • Hygain
  • Charter Hall
  • Fortitude Investment Partners
  • Immutable
  • Mable
  • Fujitsu
  • Hancock & Gore
  • Orro
  • Cuscal
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